Tag: illustration

Ink Test

Posted on 07/03/2021 by meanseandean

Dusted off the old inks yesterday afternoon. I won’t post the entire piece, but I’m only semi satisfied with this style. Still seems a bit too busy, unplanned:

Ink test for Metal Messiah - a cartoony face/skull screaming at the viewer with blue line work eliminated.

Not only testing out what skills I lost maintained, but also a technique I picked up somewhere of printing my own blue-lines. Saves a ton of time erasing since I can edit out out those non-photo blue lines easily in Photoshop, which also takes the pressure off seeing as I didn’t just destroy ruin ink over original pencils and can have another go without much effort:

Ink test for Metal Messiah - a cartoony face/skull screaming at the viewer with blue line work visible underneath.
Ah… progress?

Back to it – determined that his book will see light of day!

-Sean

Anvilhead sticker?

Posted on 07/02/2021 by meanseandean

Here he is, the man, the myth, the narrator – Anvilhead (TM) himself. This is the original design intended to be turned into a small tabletop bust of one of the more colorful characters in the Metal Messiah graphic novel.

I wanted him to be larger than life, but essentially demon king of the heshers. He speaks in an on-again-off-again olde-english prose and has a penchant for hyperbole.

Anviilhead Vector Design

I wanted him to seem like the kind of guy who’s cool but gets a little TOO excited.

Did the linework using Adobe Illustrator, but the lines are a little too crisp for me. I don’t think this looks bad and might make it’s way into avatars / stickers / logos but the process helped me determine to do the rest of the book in traditional media!

-Sean